# V. MATERIALS FOR CONGRESS PREPARATION.

## 1.

## ON THE DRAFT "ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FORMATION 
OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE".

[First half of December 1904]

In a letter to A. A. Bogdanov and S. I. Gusev of 44 February 1905 (p. 454) Lenin wrote: "two months ago I sent my draft to all members of the Bureau". This concerns the draft "Announcement of the Formation of the Organizational Committee" for the convocation of the 3rd Party Congress. In Lenin's papers there have been preserved both the draft itself of this announcement (document "6u"), and a preliminary sketch of theses (document "aa"), written in Lenin's hand.

Proceeding from the above-cited words of Lenin about his sending the draft announcement to members of the B.B.B., it would be necessary to assign the documents presented below by the time of their composition to the first half of December 1904.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FORMATION OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL
C[OMMITTE]E.

1) [2] Break of c[entre]s with the p[arty].

2) Election of [bureau] of d[elegatese] by c[onference]s of the n[orthern], s[outhern] and c[aucasia]n. 
The N[orthern] bureau acts,
in accordance with the decision of the c[onference], as the Organizational Committee, whereby it enters into agreement with the c[aucasian] and s[outhern] delegates.

3) The Organizational Committee convenes the 3rd regular congress of the Russian S[ocial] D[emocratic] W[orkers']